A Career Anthology 1923-31 – CD – Acrobat

· Collection devoted to the great jazz musicians and bandleaders Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey’s collaboration leading a band in the early years of the swing era · 72-track 3-CD set comprising releases on the Okeh, Banner Harmony, Melotone, Columbia, Brunswick, Vocalion and Decca during the band’s existence · Cornetist, trumpeter, bandleader and composer Joe ‘King’ Oliver was one of the most important figures in jazz as a pioneer of the genre in the 1920s · 125-track 5-CD set comprising a significant proportion of his career recordings leading his own bands, with other leaders and accompanying singers · A comprehensive and enlightening showcase for one of the true innovators in early jazz